A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Hall, Nat

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 124
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 84
Ratio of total words to unique words - 1.476
Tagged as SHD (Shetland) dialect.
Top ten most common words - da, o, ta, an, hairst, wis, afore, wir, i', a,

List of texts in corpus

nobody remembers the birdman - Hairst
Association for Scottish Literature (2022-07-29 ) in Shetland dialect (SHD), categorised as poetry (124 words)

Author word Keyness frequencies

This should list the words that the author uses in a disproportionate manner more often than other writers in the corpus. This may include (a) proper nouns (character names in the author's stories), (b) other words related to the specific subject matter and (c) words specific to the regional dialect.
WordCount Normalised
per million
Keyness
da23 185,483.87157.424
hairst3 24,193.5531.016
ta4 32,258.0626.827
i'2 16,129.0326.643
moarnin2 16,129.0322.972
licht2 16,129.0312.178
wir2 16,129.039.521
afore2 16,129.036.833
wis3 24,193.551.752
a2 16,129.030.900
o4 32,258.060.717
an3 24,193.550.007